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"Published on Private see the link in About" — Little family of Monte Sole

Almost all the guardians who work for churches in Milan are not Italians, it is that kind of job italians don’t want to do anymore because they see it like a servant work. Henry Villacis Pihuale, from Equador, 57 years old he's a sacristan since 1999 at the church of saint Ambrogio in Milan, Italy. Photo Luz/Paolo Bona — The faith guardians

Mrs Rosa Silva, 93 years old, reading with emotion a birthday card she has received from the enterteiment staff members and the other guests. Every month guests who have birthday on that specific month are celebrated togheter with a party on the main hall of Villa Cenacolo.
Rosa is very sweet and she's very open heart,
she lost her husband Franco, who was also living at Villa Cenacolo, a couple of years ago; to remember him she wrote some poems because poetry it has always been her passion. When she was younger she took a program on reading poetry on a local radio in Canzo, a mountain village nearby the Como lake where she's been living.
That table is Rosa's favourite spot of the retirement house, where she reads books, play cards, eat and chat especially with her daughter who comes to visit her almost every day, except when she has to help her own daughetr with a new born baby.
Rosa has been living all her life with a polio disease on her muscles legs, but that didn't stop her to fight as a partisan dyspatch rider during the italian civil war against the german nazi and the italian fascism. In particular she was bringing food to the italian partisans hidden on the mountains, throwing out of the train window on a specific setted place a bag full of food.
At the end of the second world war Rosa married one of those italian partisan.
Rosa would never change anything in her own life: because "i've been loved and i loved" she said to me. — Active Aging

Colla e marionette

Today, 85% of Swedish dads take parental leave. Sweden was the first country to adopt parental leave, instead of maternal leave, in 1974. Starting from 1995 Swedish legislation provides that if fathers do not take advantage of parental leave, the family looses 1 month of subsidies, which later become 2 months in 2002. Parents are entitled to a 390-day leave which can be used until the child’s 8th birthday. 8 on 10 Swedish fathers take leave for at least one third of the 13 months parental leave. During leave, parents are paid 80% of their salary. Niklas Lindgren, a 32 year old IT engineer, is on parental leave for 8 months and takes care of his son Nils (9 months), as well as of Alma (3.5 years) who goes to day care.
Malmo (Sweden). Photo Luz/Paolo Bona — Swedish Dads on Parental Leave

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